TWI592346B - Paper container foaming device - Google Patents

Description

Paper container foaming device

The present invention relates to a paper container foaming device.

Conventionally known heat-insulating disposable containers are often used for hot drinks or hot soups, and the heat-insulating layer is usually a foamed layer, which is coated with a foamed material on the outer wall of the formed paper container, and then applied at a high temperature. Bubble expansion.

In the currently known technology, a paper container carrying a plurality of coated foam materials in a conveyor belt manner is foamed by a heating device, and after foaming and cooling are completed, the stack is collectively collected. However, in such a structure, the paper containers are placed directly on the conveyor belt and then moved forward with the conveyor belt, that is, the paper containers are randomly distributed on the conveyor belt, if paper containers of different colors or sizes are simultaneously Placed on the conveyor belt, the final centralized recycling step will result in uneven size of the recycled stacked paper containers, which is more unfavorable for classification; however, if only one paper container of the same specification can be placed in a foaming process, it will be very unfavorable. Specifications, a small amount of manufacturing, not only processing time is elongated, but also wastes energy.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a paper container foaming device capable of simultaneously foaming a plurality of groups of paper containers, and the recycling mechanism is also classified according to groups.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a paper container foaming device for thermally foaming a foaming material of a plurality of unfoamed paper containers, comprising at least one movable carrier, a feeding portion, and a a heating portion, a cooling portion and a receiving portion.

The loading base is for carrying the unfoamed paper container; the feeding portion comprises a plurality of feeding ports, and when the loading block moves to the feeding portion, each of the feeding ports respectively has at least one unfoamed paper The container is output to the carrier, so that the unfoamed paper containers are carried by the carrier; when the carrier that has carried the unfoamed paper containers is moved to the heating portion, the heating portion can The foamed material of the unfoamed paper containers is heated and foamed; when the carrier moves to the cooling portion, the cooling portion can cool the foamed paper container carried by the carrier; The material portion includes a plurality of receiving ports, and the plurality of receiving foamed paper containers are separately recovered; wherein the feeding ports corresponding to the paper containers are aligned with the receiving ports and are mutually Corresponding.

Thereby, since the feeding portion and the receiving port respectively have a feeding port and a receiving port corresponding to the sorting and the position, the paper containers from different groups can be outputted from different feeding ports, and then the corresponding collection is received. The material is separately recovered to achieve the effect of foaming a plurality of group paper containers at the same time, paper containers from different groups are not mixed with each other, and multiple feed ports and receiving ports improve work efficiency.

10‧‧‧Feeding Department

11‧‧‧ Feeding tube

111‧‧‧ Feed inlet

20‧‧‧heating department

21‧‧‧ heating device

22‧‧‧ gas supply port

23‧‧‧return port

24‧‧ ‧ baffle

30‧‧‧ Cooling Department

40‧‧‧ Receiving Department

41‧‧‧ receiving tube

411‧‧‧ receiving port

50‧‧‧Ticket

51‧‧‧ seat

511‧‧‧Support Department

52‧‧‧ Gears

60‧‧‧ track

61‧‧‧The top surface

70‧‧‧Chain transport structure

80, 80a‧‧‧Unfoamed paper containers

80'‧‧‧paper container

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a schematic view of the feed portion and the heating portion of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a side view of the feed portion and the heating portion of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a side view of the heating portion and the receiving portion of the present invention.

Figure 5 is a front view of the heating portion of the present invention.

Figure 6 is a schematic illustration of the state of use of the present invention.

The following is a description of the possible embodiments of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention as claimed.

Referring to FIG. 1 to FIG. 5, the present invention provides a paper container foaming device for heating and foaming a foaming material of a plurality of unfoamed paper containers 80, wherein the foaming material is applied to each of the unfired materials. The outer wall surface of the foam container 80, in the main embodiment of the present invention, the paper container foaming device comprises a feeding portion 10, a heating portion 20, a cooling portion 30, a receiving portion 40 and a plurality of movable portions The loading base 50, wherein the feeding portion 10, the heating portion 20, the cooling portion 30 and the receiving portion 40 are sequentially arranged in a machine, and the loading blocks 50 are located in the machine. The feeding portion 10, the heating portion 20, the cooling portion 30, and the receiving portion 40 are sequentially passed.

Each of the carriers 50 is configured to carry the unfoamed paper containers 80 and the plurality of carriers 50 are sequentially arranged in the direction in which they move. Each of the carriers 50 includes a moving mechanism and a plurality of sockets 51. The sockets 51 are arranged in a direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the carrier 50. Each of the sockets 51 includes a rotating mechanism. When the carrier 50 is moved by the moving mechanism, the rotating mechanism makes the bearing The seat 51 is rotated about a predetermined axis of rotation that is perpendicular to the direction of movement of the carrier 50. In more detail, the moving mechanism includes a chain transport structure 70 that is fixed to the chain transport structure 70 and can be carried by the chain transport structure 70 to move in a predetermined direction, wherein the chain transport structure 70 Extending to the feeding portion 10, the heating portion 20, the cooling portion 30 and the receiving portion 40 in a circulating shape, the plurality of carrier holders 50 are transferred from the feeding portion 10 to the heating portion 20, and the cooling portion The portion 30 is conveyed to the receiving portion 40 and wraps around the feeding portion 10. In another aspect, the paper container foaming device of the present invention has a plurality of rails 60. The rotating mechanism of each of the sockets 51 includes a gear 52 disposed coaxially with the socket 51. The gear 52 and one of the rails 60 abut each other. When the moving mechanism drives the carrier 50 to move, the socket 51 is between the gear 52 and the rail 60. The frictional force is rotated. More specifically, each of the rails 60 is located between any two adjacent sockets 51 and has an abutting surface 61 on opposite sides, and the gears 52 on both sides of the rail 60 are respectively abutted. The second is on the top surface 61. In addition, each of the sockets 51 has a support portion 511 having a larger outer diameter, and the socket 51 can extend into the interior of the unfoamed paper container 80. The support portion 511 supports the unfoamed paper container. The bottom of the 80, the unfoamed paper container 80 is erected, and the opening of the unfoamed paper container 80 is open to the outside to facilitate the entry of hot air into the interior of the unfoamed paper container 80. The foaming speed can further heat and foam the foamed material of the inner layer from the inside at the same time, avoiding the case that the foamed material of the outer layer has been excessively foamed but the foaming material of the inner layer is not completely foamed. .

The feeding portion 10 includes a plurality of feeding tubes 11 which are arranged longitudinally and in parallel, and a feeding port 111 is formed at the bottom end of each of the feeding tubes 11, and the feeding tubes 11 are accommodated. The unfoamed paper containers 80 are transported to the feed ports 111, wherein the openings of the unfoamed paper containers 80 face downward and the bottom faces upwards. The arrangement of the nozzles 111 corresponds to the arrangement of the sockets 51, that is, each of the inlets 111 corresponds to one of the sockets 51, and when the carrier 50 is moved to the feeding portion 10, The sockets 51 respectively receive the unfoamed paper containers 80 output from the feed ports 111.

The heating unit 20 has at least one heating device 21 and at least one airflow guiding device. The heating device 21 is preferably a heating plate disposed on the top of the heating portion 20, and the airflow guiding device includes a plurality of air supply ports 22 And at least one gas return port 23, each of the gas supply ports 22 is located at the top of the heating portion 20, and the gas return port 23 is located at the bottom of the heating portion 20, and the gas supply port 22 can output an air flow to the heating portion 20 (for example, nozzle ejection The air return port 23 can suck the air flow from the heating portion 20 to guide the heat generated by the heating device 21 downward. Preferably, the air supply ports 22 are connected to the air return port 23 by an external pipe. Forming a gas circulation system, in addition, the addition There is further a baffle 24 under the heat device 21 for blocking the heat generated by the heating device 21 from directly radiating downward. In particular, when the carrier 50 carrying the unfoamed paper container 80 enters the heating portion 20, the position of each of the air supply ports 22 corresponds to between two adjacent sockets 51, so that the supply The airflow ejected from the port 22 can carry heat to the outer wall of the unfoamed paper container 80 carried on the two adjacent sockets 51 to surely heat-expand the foamed material.

The cooling portion 30 is used for cooling the paper container 80' which has been heated and foamed to facilitate subsequent processes such as receiving, packaging, etc., that is, carrying the carrier 50 of the paper container 80' which has been heated and foamed. The cooling unit 30 enters the cooling unit 30, that is, the paper containers 80' are cooled.

The receiving portion 40 includes a plurality of receiving tubes 41, which are arranged longitudinally and in parallel, and a receiving port 411 is formed at the bottom end of each receiving tube 41, and the receiving ports 411 respectively The paper containers 80' which have been foamed on the sockets 51 are recovered and transported upward through the receiving tubes 41 for subsequent packaging operations. The arrangement of the receiving ports 411 and the receiving tubes 41 corresponds to the arrangement of the sockets 51. When the carrier 50 carries the foamed paper containers 80' into the collection The material receiving portion 411 corresponds to the positions of the plurality of sockets 51, so that the receiving ports 411 can respectively recover the paper containers 80' on one of the sockets 51. In other words, the feed ports 111 corresponding to the paper containers 80' are aligned with the receiving ports 411 to correspond to each other, so that the paper containers 80' of the same group can be output by the same feed port 111 and be in the same position. The socket 51 is carried and foamed, and is recovered by the same receiving port 411. The same group is maintained before and after the process without confusion.

In actual operation, as shown in FIG. 6 and FIG. 2, the user can place the same group of unfoamed paper containers 80, 80a in each feeding tube 11 (for example, the same size, the same color, the same style or the same customer). The goods of the order) correspond to each other through the inlet, the socket and the receiving port. The unfoamed paper containers 80, 80a of the same group can be carried and foamed by the socket 51 at the same position, and then recycled, stacked or even packaged by the same receiving port 411, thus, as shown in FIG. As shown in Fig. 2, different groups of paper containers can be simultaneously transported, foamed, cooled, and recycled by being placed in different feed tubes 11, and are not mixed with other groups of paper containers, only the same The paper containers of the group will be recycled and stacked together, which is quite conducive to the subsequent processing, packaging and sorting operations, and can be applied to small quantities, that is, when the paper containers placed in each feeding tube are equally divided It belongs to different groups, that is, it can make small-scale production of multiple styles in a short time.

The airflow guiding device in the invention can effectively transfer the heat generated by the heating device downwards quickly and uniformly, avoiding the problem of local excessively high temperature and insufficient local temperature, thereby avoiding excessive foaming and foaming in a region with more heat. Even the high temperature penetrating paper container destroys the inner laminating layer, and the less heated area is incompletely foamed; further, since the air supply port of the air guiding device is just aligned with the two adjacent seats In other words, that is, the airflow from the air supply port carries heat and reaches the outer wall of the two adjacent sockets, thereby improving the heating efficiency; even, because the airflow flows downward, the paper container can be more firmly supported on the bearing. On the seat, it is not easy to overturn and affect the yield.

On the other hand, since the socket rotates while moving, the outer wall of the carried paper container can be uniformly heated, and even if the heating portion is not heated uniformly, the socket can still reduce the outer wall of the paper container through the rotation. The difference in the degree of foaming.

In addition, the socket can support the paper container so that the opening of the paper container communicates with the outside to be open, that is, the hot air can enter the inside of the paper container, and the inside and the outside are simultaneously heated to accelerate foaming and make the heating more uniform. .

In summary, the present invention has a plurality of spaced-apart carrier holders that are continuously moved forward by the chain transport structure to achieve rapid, mass production, and products of different groups. They do not mix with each other, and increase the heating rate and uniformity by means of a high-speed airflow that can rotate and support, and greatly improve the yield, output and production efficiency.

11‧‧‧ Feeding tube

111‧‧‧ Feed inlet

21‧‧‧ heating device

22‧‧‧ gas supply port

24‧‧ ‧ baffle

50‧‧‧Ticket

51‧‧‧ seat

511‧‧‧Support Department

52‧‧‧ Gears

60‧‧‧ track

61‧‧‧The top surface

70‧‧‧Chain transport structure

80‧‧‧Unfoamed paper containers

Claims (4)

A paper container foaming device for heating and foaming a foaming material of a plurality of unfoamed paper containers, the paper container foaming device comprising: at least one movable carrier for carrying the unfoamed paper a feeding portion, the feeding portion comprising a plurality of feeding ports, each of the feeding ports respectively outputting at least one unfoamed paper container to the loading portion when the loading portion is moved to the feeding portion Blocking the unfoamed paper containers by the carrier; a heating portion, when the carrier that has carried the unfoamed paper containers moves to the heating portion, the heating portion can The foamed material of the unfoamed paper container is heated and foamed; and a cooling portion is capable of cooling the foamed paper container carried by the carrier when the carrier moves to the cooling portion; a receiving portion, the receiving portion includes a plurality of receiving ports, and the receiving ports respectively recover the cooled and completed foamed paper containers respectively; wherein the paper containers correspond to the feeding ports and The receiving ports are sorted in order and correspond to each other. The paper container foaming device of claim 1, wherein the feeding portion comprises a plurality of sequentially arranged feeding tubes, the bottom ends of the feeding tubes forming the feeding ports, the feeding tubes are provided The unfoamed paper containers are accommodated and the unfoamed paper containers are conveyed to the feed ports, wherein each of the unfoamed paper containers has an opening facing downward and a bottom portion facing upward. The paper container foaming device of claim 1, wherein the receiving portion comprises a plurality of receiving tubes arranged in a longitudinal direction, the bottom ends of the receiving tubes forming the receiving openings, and the receiving ports are The collected foamed paper containers are transported up by the take-up tubes. The paper container foaming device of claim 1, wherein the carrier comprises a moving mechanism and a complex a plurality of sockets, the arrangement patterns of the sockets are corresponding to the arrangement manner of the feeding ports and the arrangement manner of the receiving ports, when the carrier moves to the feeding portion by the moving mechanism, These sockets respectively receive the unfoamed paper containers output by the feed ports.